Current Exhibitions
New Members Show
Deborah Petermann, Karl Stauber and William Schumann
Exhibition Dates: February 4 – March 1, 2026
Open DADA Gallery Hop: Friday, February 6, 11am – 9 pm
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, February 8, 2 – 4 pm
Open Farmer’s Market Sunday, March 1, 2026, 10am – 4 pm
Deborah Petermann
Deborah Petermann’s work in the current New Member Show at Artworks Gallery in Winston Salem includes landscapes, abstracts, and figurative works. She uses color, texture, and gesture to embody the association between seeing and feeling, and to portray a sense of the moment.
Deborah Petermann has always been moved by the beauty of nature and felt the need to cherish and promote the preservation of natural areas. When she entered her retirement from NC State University she devoted her time to painting landscapes of Western North Carolina, Southern Virginia, Switzerland and France.
Karl Stauber
Karl Stauber has been engaged in wood turning and furniture making for over 40 years. For the last 30 years he has focused primarily on bowl and platter making. He approaches each piece of wood with a conceptual design on paper or in his head. Wood is attached to a lathe and as the wood is spun using gouges and other tools the intended design is worked into the piece. The design evolves based on the size and what he finds within wood, striving to bring forth the organic patterns that are unique to each piece of wood, without compromising the original design concept. Pieces that do not meet his design criteria end up in the burn pile.
William Schumann
William Schumann is an intuitive, expressive acrylic painter using a process he refers to as “roundabout”. He is drawn to making big stylistic shifts between paintings as he experiments with relationships between color, pattern, and movement. Many of his ideas come to him as he is painting and asking himself, “What if I took this small idea or variation and applied it to an entirely separate artwork?” Through this process, he is continuously creating new ideas for expression and simultaneously reevaluating his established work as a point of new experimentation. Most of the pieces in this show were created within three months which is revealing of his roundabout evolutionary process as a painter: even as he develops bodies of distinctive works, it is only through indirect pathways of artistic expression that he reaches an intended destination.
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